The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi shall have no part nor
inheritance with Israel. The offerings of the LORD and his inheritance
they shall eat, but shall have no inheritance among their brethren: the
LORD he is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. And this is
the duty of the priests, of the people and of them that offer, whether
it be ox or sheep: They must give unto the priest, the shoulder and the
two cheeks and the maw, the first fruits of thy corn, wine and oil, and
the first of thy sheep shearing must thou give him. For the LORD thy
God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to stond and to minister in
the name of the LORD: both him and his sons for ever. If a Levite come
out of any of thy cities or any place of Israel, where he is a
sojourner, and come with all the lust of his heart unto the place which
the LORD hath chosen: he shall there minister in the name of the LORD
his God as all his brethren the Levites do which stond there before the
LORD. And they shall have like portions to eat, beside that which
cometh to him of the patrimony of his elders. When thou art come into
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou learn not to
do after the abominations of these nations. Let there not be found
among you that maketh his son or his daughter go thorow fire, either a
bruterar or a maker of dismal days or that useth witchcraft {or that
useth withcraft, or a chooser out of days or that regardeth the flyeng
of souls} or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or that speaketh {counseleth}
with a spirit, or a soothsayer or that talketh with them that are dead.
{prophesiar or that asketh the advise of the dead.} For all that do
such things are abomination unto the LORD: and because of these
abominations the LORD thy God doeth cast them out before thee, be pure
therefore with the LORD thy God. For these nations which thou shalt
conquer, hearken unto makers {choosers out} of dismal days and
bruterars. {prophesyars, or profit-seers} But the LORD thy God
permitteth not that to thee. The LORD thy God will stir up a Prophet
among you: even of thy brethren like unto me: and unto him ye shall
hearken according to all that thou desiredest of the LORD thy God in
Horeb in the day when the people were gathered saying: Let me hear the
voice of my LORD God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I
die not. And the LORD said unto me: they have well spoken, I will raise
them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee and will put
my words into his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall
command him. And whosoever will not hearken unto the words which he
shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. But the prophet which
shall presume to speak ought in my name which I commanded him not to
speak, and he that speaketh in the name of strange gods, the same
prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, how shall I know
that which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the
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